Cloud Engineer, Consultant

Job Description

Your Role

The Advanced Analytics team is responsible for delivering Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics, GenAI applications and advanced statistical models to our business users. The Cloud Engineer will report to the Director of Advanced Analytics. In this role you will design, build and maintain continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines with embedded testing to effectively secure and deploy cloud-based workloads. Design infrastructure and implement automation using infrastructure-as-code solutions and build automation for routine, simple, and complex tasks.

Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow - personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.

Responsibilities

Your Work

• Design, deploy and support scalable, secure, highly available, and reliable workloads across a multi-cloud presence (Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and AWS); analyze related technology requirements; oversee continuous improvement efforts.
• Provide leadership for the migration of on-premises workloads to the cloud leveraging a cloud migration factory model approach; lead design efforts.
• Apply GitOps/IaC concepts and related tooling to execute operations (Version Control Systems, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment, self-service automation platforms); actively advance team capabilities through mentoring.
• Collaborate across a multi-functional team (DevOps model) in support of a product-centric organization.
• Actively contribute to the development of cloud governance decision making and processes.
• Participate in Agile methodology meetings and scrums.
• Manage Azure Cognitive Services, Databricks, SAS and other cloud-based platforms

Qualifications

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires 7+ years hands-on administration and design experience of a wide array of cloud services across Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and AWS
• Experience working in DevOps environments; knowledge of GitOps concepts
• Requires 5+ years of hands-on programming/scripting (e.g., Python, Go, Ruby) and software configuration management experience (e.g., Ansible)
• Requires 5+ years of Linux and/or Windows Administration experience
• Requires 3+ years of hands-on experience administering container orchestration solutions
• Requires 5+ years of hands-on experience with firewalls, load balancers, and IPAM solutions
• Requires 5+ years of hands-on experience administering monitoring and logging tooling (e.g., Azure Monitor, Splunk)
• Requires experience/understanding of cloud architecture solutions and design for data, machine learning, artificial intelligence
• Requires experience architecting and building data platforms on Azure and data Bricks from Scratch
• Requires extensive hands-on experience with (minimum of 6 years) Azure Databricks, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake and Azure Cloud Architecture

About the Team

About Stellarus and the Ascendiun Family of Companies

Stellarus, launched in January 2025, is designed to scale innovative healthcare solutions that support customers in creating a health care experience deserving of their family, friends, and neighbors.

Stellarus is part of a family of organizations that is overseen by a nonprofit corporate entity named Ascendiun. The Ascendiun Family of Companies also includes Blue Shield of California and its subsidiary, Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan and Altais, a clinical services company.

Stellarus' vision is to empower its customers to create a healthcare experience that is worthy of their family, friends, and neighbors. Stellarus' objective is to offer innovative, modern, scalable solutions that challenge the health care status quo. This very closely aligns with Blue Shield of California's vision by using innovation to improve quality, affordability, and experience for members.

To achieve our mission, we foster an environment where all employees can thrive and contribute fully to address the needs of the various communities we serve. We are committed to creating and maintaining a supportive workplace that upholds our values and advances our goals.

Our Values:

At Stellarus, our core values of agility, trust, drive, courage and service shape our approach to developing innovative product offerings.

Our Workplace Model:

We believe in fostering a workplace environment that balances purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility - providing clear expectations while respecting the diverse needs of our workforce. Our workplace model is designed around intentional in-person interaction, collaboration, connection, creativity and flexibility:

• For most teams, this means coming into the office two days per week.
• Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location, out of state employees, and employees in certain member-facing roles should work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.
• For employees with medical conditions that may impact their ability to work in-office, we are committed to engaging in an interactive process and providing reasonable accommodations to ensure their work environment is conducive to their success and well-being.

The Company reserves the right to require more presence in the office based on business needs, and requirements are subject to change with periodic reviews.

Physical Requirements:

Office Environment - roles involving part to full time schedule in Office Environment. Based in our physical offices and work from home office/deskwork - Activity level: Sedentary, frequency most of work day.

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Equal Employment Opportunity:

External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest records and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, State and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability status and any other classification protected by Federal, State and local laws.